1. ............. became the President of the United States by defeating John C.
Breckinridge - the nominee of the Southern faction, by a huge margin.
Correct : A. abraham lincoln
2. The Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln became the President of the
United States by defeating ............- the nominee of the Southern faction, by a huge margin.
Correct : A. john c. breckinridge
3. Soon after the War, American President ................under his capacity of
being the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate States of America.
Correct : A. abraham lincoln
4. The history of slavery in America dates back to the seventeenth century
when slaves were brought to Virginia in.............
Correct : C. 1619
5. Abraham Lincoln was elected the President of United States in..................
Correct : C. 1860
6. South Carolina was the first state to declare secession from the United
States in .................
Correct : D. 1861
7. On September 22, ............, Abraham Lincoln issued what is known as the
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
Correct : D. 1862
8. As promised, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on
1st January, ...............
Correct : D. 1863
9. The American Civil War ended in ............. with the Northern forces under
the Union defeating the southern states fighting under Confederacy.
Correct : D. 1865
10. The Congress passed the 13th amendment which abolished slavery in the
United States on January 31, 1865, and it was ratified by the states on December 6,...................
Correct : D. 1865
11. The American Civil War was fought in the years 1861-1865 over the issue
of ……………...
Correct : D. mercantilism
12. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born in Porbandar,…………...
Correct : D. gujarat
13. ………………. adopted the policy of mass disobedience and non-violent resistance as weapons against the British Rule in India and followed a
principle of Ahimsa (total Non-Violence).
Correct : D. mahatma gandhi
14. …………. birthday 2 October is commemorated as Gandhi Jayanti, a
national holiday and as the International Non-Violence day across the world.
Correct : A. mahatma gandhi’s
15. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a town in Gujarat
in western India on 2 October …………….
Correct : D. 1869
16. At the age of 13 …………was married to one year older kasturba.
Correct : A. mahatma gandhi
17. On 4th September……………., Mahatma Gandhi traveled to England to
study law at the university College London and to train as a barrister, as his family wanted him to be a barrister.
Correct : D. 1888
18. …………. had started and popularized the term ‘Harijan’ for the
Untouchables (though many saw it as patronizing).
Correct : D. mahatma gandhi
19. ………… was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Correct : A. martin luther king, jr.
20. While spending time in the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, …………. learned all about Mahatma Gandhi's policy against non- violence, and finally earned a degree in Divinity in 1951.
Correct : A. martin luther king, jr.
21. …………….. went on to Boston University, to complete his dissertation on
the subject, "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman."
Correct : D. martin luther king, jr.
22. …………….. soon became a pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, after having married Coretta Scott in 1953, a
singer he met while in Boston.
Correct : A. martin luther king, jr.
23. In 1957, an organization called the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference was formed, under the leadership of ……………., as a means of leading the upcoming civil rights movement in the country.
Correct : A. martin luther king, jr.
24. As part of the poor people's campaign, ……….. went to Memphis,
Tennessee on 29 March, 1968, in order to show support for the black sanitation workers.
Correct : A. martin luther king, jr.
25. ………….., is now leading the United States of America as its president.
Correct : A. barrack obama
26. The South African activist and former president …………….helped bring
an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights.
Correct : B. nelson mandela
27. A member of the African National Congress party beginning in the 1940s, ……………. was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance
against the white minority’s oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa.
Correct : A. nelson mandela
28. ………….. became the first black president of South Africa in 1994.
Correct : B. nelson mandela
29. ..................was born on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosa- speaking Thimbu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo.
Correct : A. nelson mandela
30. ...................mother, Nosekeni Fanny, was the third of Mphakanyiswa’s four
wives, who together bore him nine daughters and four sons.
Correct : A. nelson mandela’s
31. .................. went on to attend the Clarkebury Boarding Institute and
Healdton, a Methodist secondary school, where he excelled in boxing and track as well as academics.
Correct : B. nelson mandela
32. In 1939 ...............entered the elite University of Fort Hare, the only
Western-style higher learning institute for South African blacks at the time.
Correct : A. nelson mandela
33. In 1940 .............and several other students, including his friend and
future business partner Oliver Tambo were sent home for participating in a boycott against university policies.
Correct : A. nelson mandela
34. After learning that his guardian had arranged a marriage for him, .............
fled to Johannesburg and worked first as a night watchman and then as a law clerk while completing his bachelor’s degree by correspondence.
Correct : B. nelson mandela
35. ..............studied law at the University of Witwatersrand, where he became
involved in the movement against racial discrimination and forged key relationships with black and white activists.
Correct : B. nelson mandela
36. ............... spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the brutal Robben
Island Prison, a former leper colony off the coast of Cape Town, where he was confined to a small cell without a bed or plumbing and compelled to do hard labour in a lime quarry.
Correct : C. nelson mandela
37. While in confinement Mandela earned a bachelor of law degree from the
University of .............. and served as a mentor to his fellow prisoners, encouraging them to seek better treatment through nonviolent resistance.
Correct : A. london
38. .............. drafted his autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom,”
Correct : A. nelson mandela
39. In 1980 ............ introduced a “Free Nelson Mandela” campaign that made
the jailed leader a household name and fuelled the growing international outcry against South Africa’s racist regime.
Correct : A. oliver tambo
40. In ............. Mandela was moved to Polls moor Prison on the mainland.
Correct : C. 1982
41. In 1983, newly elected president ............. lifted the ban on the ANC and
called for a nonracist South Africa, breaking with the conservatives in his party.
Correct : C. f. w. de klerk
42. On February 11, 1990, ................ ordered Mandela’s release.
Correct : A. f. w. de klerk
43. ..................was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa, with
de Klerk serving as his first deputy.
Correct : A. mandela
44. As president, ........... established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights and political violations committed by both
supporters and opponents of apartheid between 1960 and 1994.
Correct : A. mandela
45. In 1996 ................. presided over the enactment of a new South African
constitution, which established a strong central government based on majority rule and prohibited discrimination against minorities, including whites.
Correct : D. mandela
46. Improving race relations, discouraging blacks from retaliating against the
white minority and building a new international image of a united South Africa were central to President ......... agenda.
Correct : A. mandela’s
47. In.............., the United Nations declared July 18 “Nelson Mandela
International Day” in recognition of the South African leader’s contributions to democracy, freedom, peace and human rights around the world.
Correct : D. 2009
48. Nelson Mandela was born July 18, 1918 in the royal lineage of the
..............dynasty.
Correct : A. thimbu
49. ................ continued to study and practice the nonviolent resistance methods of Mahatma Gandhi until the ruling National Party began crushing all opposition.
Correct : A. nelson mandela
50. A few years later .................. was sentenced to life imprisonment on
Robben Island for his actions against the government.
Correct : A. nelson mandela
51. On February 10, .............., after a series of secret talks, F.W. de Klerk, the
newly appointed president granted Mandela his freedom.
Correct : D. 1990
52. Mandela became the first democratically elected president of ................
Correct : A. south africa
53. Rev. Dr.Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a ................ activist and Christian cleric
who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid.
Correct : A. south african
54. …………… was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape
Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
55. .............. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer
Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005, and thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
56. .................. was born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal, on 7 October 1931, the
second of the three children of Zacheriah Zililo Tutu and his wife, Aletta, and the only son.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
57. ............. studied at the Pretoria Bantu Normal College from 1951 to 1953,
and went on to teach at Johannesburg Bantu High School and at Munsienville High School in Mogale City.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
58. In 1972, ......... returned to the UK, where he was appointed vice-director of
the Theological Education Fund of the World Council of Churches, at Bromley in Kent.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
59. .............returned to South Africa in 1975 and was appointed Anglican Dean
of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg -— the first black person to hold that position.
Correct : D. desmond tutu
60. On 2 July 1955, ........... married Nomalizo Leah Shenxane, a teacher whom
he had met while at college.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
61. ................was appointed as the UN Lead for an investigation into the Israeli
bombings in the Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
62. In January 2003, ........ attacked British Prime Minister Tony Blair's stance
in supporting American President George W. Bush over Iraq.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
63. In 2009 ............... joined the project "Soldiers of Peace", a movie against all
wars and for a global peace.
Correct : B. desmond tutu
64. In 1998, ............. was appointed as the Robert R Woodruff Visiting
Professor at Emory University, Atlanta.
Correct : D. desmond tutu
65. In June 1999, ................was invited to give the annual Wilberforce Lecture in Kingston upon Hull, commemorating the life and achievements of the
anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
66. In October 2008, Tutu received the Wallenberg Medal from the University
of ............. in recognition of his life-long work in defense of human rights and dignity.
Correct : A. michigan
67. In November 2008, ............... was awarded the J. William Fulbright Prize
for International Understanding.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
68. In 2009 Desmond Tutu received the Spiritual Leadership Award from the international Humanity's Team movement and the Presidential Medal of
Freedom from U.S. President ................
Correct : A. wangari maathai
69. …………….. was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape
Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
Correct : A. desmond tutu
70. ................. was born October 7, 1931 in Klerksdorph, Transvaal.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
71. At the age of 12, .............moved with his family to Johannesburg.
Correct : A. desmond tutu
72. In 1978 .............was the first black to hold the position of Dean of St.
Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg.
Correct : C. desmond tutu
73. Wangari Maathai was a …………environmental activist.
Correct : A. kenyan
74. ..............founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s seeking to promote
environmental conservation in Kenya and Africa.
Correct : C. wangari maathai
75. Wangari Maathai became the first .............women to receive the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2004 for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace."
Correct : A. african
76. ..............was born 1 April 1940 in the Nyeri District in the central
highlands of Kenya.
Correct : A. wangari maathai
77. In ................., Wangari Maathai returned to Nairobi where she became the
first East African women to receive a Ph.D - which she gained it in veterinary anatomy.
Correct : B. 1969
78. Maathai led a movement to plant trees throughout ............... This became
known as the Green Belt movement.
Correct : C. kenya
79. The Green Belt movement was supported by the ............... Forestry Society
and Maathai later gained a job as coordinator.
Correct : A. norwegian
80. In the early 1980s, ............... was elected chairman of the National Council
of Women of Kenya (NCWK).
Correct : A. maathai
81. The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action in................., in terms of which the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was established.
Correct : D. 1993
82. In ................, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights was
replaced with the United Nations Human Rights Council for the enforcement of international human rights law.
Correct : A. 2006
83. Pursuant to Article 63, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
came into effect on October 21, .............., in honour of which October 21 was declared African Human Rights Day.
Correct : A. 1986
84. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights was established in ................ with the purpose of enforcing and interpreting the provisions of the
American Convention on Human Rights.
Correct : A. 1979
85. The Council of Europe, founded in ..............., is the oldest organisation
working for European integration. The seat of the Council is in Strasbourg in France.
Correct : A. 1949
86. The Council of Europe, founded in 1949, is the oldest organisation working
for European integration. The seat of the Council is in Strasbourg in ........
Correct : A. france
87. In 1998, Augusto Pinochet was arrested in ........... following an indictment
by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón under the universal-jurisdiction principle.
Correct : A. london
88. ................ in his classic ‘A Grammar of Politics’ observed that every state is
known by the rights that it maintains.
Correct : A. harold j. laski
89. ..................., the architect of the Indian Constitution, categorically stated
in the Constituent Assembly that rights of minorities should be absolute rights.
Correct : A. dr.
90. Dalit Panther is a social organization, founded by ................. in April 1972
in Mumbai.
Correct : A. namdev dhasal
91. ............... is inspired by Black Panther Party, a revolutionary movement
amongst African-Americans, which emerged in the United States and functioned from 1966-1982.
Correct : A. dalit panther
92. The controversy over the article "Kala Swatantrya Din"(Black Independence Day) by Dhale which was published in "Sadhana" created a great sensationand publicised the Dalit Panthers through ................
Correct : A. maharashtra
93. Bhils of Khandesh revolted against the ............ occupation in 1818.
Correct : A. british
94. Pahariyas Revolt in ............... 1778
Correct : A. jharkhand
95. Kol Uprisings in ................. 1784- 85
Correct : A. maharastra
96. The Ulgulam was led by .............during 1895-1900 in Jharkhand.
Correct : B. birsa munda
97. Bhagat movement was centred on the Oran tribes of Chhotangapur in .......
Correct : A. jharkhand
98. The Kukis of ............... revolted in 1917 under the leadership of Jadonang
and his niece, Rani Gaidinliu.
Correct : C. manipur
99. In Bengal, ................., a prominent Brahmo Samaj leader, started a
woman’s journal, held prayer meetings for women and developed educational programmes for women.
Correct : A. keshub chandra sen
100. Swarnakumari Devi formed the Ladies Society in .............. in 1882 for
educating and imparting skills to widows and other poor women to make them economically self reliant.